St Francis Xavier's Early Learning and Childcare

❄️Children showed strong interest in Christmas stories, and we believe literacy should be everywhere in the nursery. Using a Christmas book, we also promoted numeracy through decorating a gingerbread man, counting buttons, and present sorting☃️ #EarlyYears #LearningThroughPlay

This morning we re-introduced our campfire sessions 🔥
We have been learning what’s safe and unsafe round fire. The children demonstrated great listening skills and we are now ready to make toast on the campfire next week 🔥🍞☺️

More ice for our curious and adventurous learners ❄️
We enjoyed saving frozen sea creatures and going on an ice hunt round the garden comparing different sizes of ice ☺️

Choosing new stories from our book swap then writing our names to stick on our new books then sharing the stories with our friends 📖More ways to celebrate Book Week Scotland #ScottishBookTrust

This morning we enjoy exploring the change in the weather. We used hammers to smash the ice and observe the change in properties of water. 💦 ❄️
We used great problem solving skills to melt the ice in warm water 💧

Story time at St Francis Xavier’s ELC for Book Week Scotland 📖Some children listened to our story of the week Pirates Love Underpants, voted by the children! We had parents reading stories.Some stories were in Polish 🇵🇱.We even had children sharing favourite stories from home! #ScottishBookTrust

What a busy day with visitors at St Francis Xavier’s ELC📖We had a special story in Spanish 🇪🇸 from a family member and a visit from local author Carrie Taylor who read her book My Little Brother Is So Annoying! Thank you so much for reading to us on Book Week Scotland #ScottishBookTrust

Many thanks to our special visitor today who came to remind the children about road safety. The children gave good examples of stopping, looking and listening before they cross the road with an adult #RoadSafetyWeek

Today we were busy shaking the trees to watch the leaves fall 🍂 Zero percent formal education, 100% fun and curiosity! #LearningThroughPlay #EarlyYears

Our children showed great interest in building the Three Bears’ house, which led to a brilliant idea – we decided to rebuild our shelter and turn it into a Numeracy Den! 🧱🐻 A wonderful example of child-led learning and teamwork in action. #MathsWeekScot #LearningThroughPlay

It’s amazing how much learning can come from one simple woodwork activity! 🪵✏️ Children wrote the first letter of their name, counted nails, used hammers safely, and weaved yarn to form their letter – building fine motor skills and confidence. #LearningThroughPlay #woodwork #STEM

During out baking activity today, the children were concentrating and focused on what they were doing while using standard units to measure ingredients to make scones.

Today we harvested our nursery potatoes 🥔 The children compared sizes, counted carefully, and one child joyfully exclaimed, “It’s like a treasure hunt, guys!” 🌱✨ #EarlyYears #OutdoorLearning #NurseryLife #LearningThroughPlay

Maths is all around us – even in the sandpit! 🎂 We baked birthday cakes with 5 candles, remembered the number 0, and when we shared our cake, we discovered it could be whole, halved or quartered. #MathsWeekScot #LearningThroughPlay

Navigating Bee Bot using directional and positional language to co-ordinate the movement. Developing a sense of length during play experiences #mathsweekscotland

Singing our nursery rhyme of the week 1,2,3,4,5 Once I caught a fish alive the children further developed their imaginative play skills as they used their fishing rods to catch fish from the pirate ship while some children looked for numbered boats in the water tray #mathsweekscotland

Reduce, reuse, recycle! ♻️

The annual uniform exchange takes place soon.

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🎨 Our art area has been buzzing with creativity! From drawing monsters to making spoon dolls, wrapping gifts, and crafting mobile phones — our wonderful children never run out of ideas.💡🧒👧 #NurseryLife #CreativeKids #ArtFun

Thanks you very much to @Huwsgray Falkirk for a donation of sand for our outdoor sandpit. The children have enjoyed transporting the sand in the wheel barrows and building lots of creations in the lovely sunny 🌞 weather.

Marvellous Meal time has really been Marvellous this week ! We made rhubarb sorbet, spaghetti sauce , cupcakes and pizzas. Our wonderful children love to be involved in decision making and preparation.
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Children were fully engaged today, playing with a crane—lifting blocks up and down, solving problems together, laughing and learning. A perfect mix of STEM exploration and language enrichment through teamwork and play! 🚧🔡🔧 #EarlyYears #STEM #LearningThroughPlay

Our children enjoyed their visit to @falkirklibraries.bsky.social . Thank you very much for our story session. We look forward to returning soon.

Upgraded our digging area with a canopy, scales, numbers & fresh visuals. Kids loved hunting for golden nuggets—measuring, comparing, and discussing heavy/light, more/less, up/down. Great for maths talk, teamwork & curiosity! 🌟⛏️⚖️ #EYFS #OutdoorLearning #MathsTalk #PlayToLearn #EarlyYears

We are learning about differences and similarities between us by opening self-portrait station. 😊
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We are becoming very independent during our campfire sessions 🔥

We really appreciate donation of our balancing board, thank you !

Thank you to our families who joined us this afternoon to celebrate #EidMubarak

Our children have enjoyed exploring books and the role of librarian in the role play area. A big thank you to Larbert Library for donating resources. #literacy#community

We made pizzas this morning but instead putting them in the oven we made them on a campfire ! 🔥
“Could we try roasting some tomatoes?” -O. Sure we can ! We love heathy choices that our wonderful learners make.
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